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The water babies : a fairy tale for a land baby
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- Summary
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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.
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- Creator
- by Charles Kingsley ; with illustrations by Sir Noel Paton and Percival Skelton
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New edition
- New York : MacMillan and Co., [18--?]
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- Physical Details
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- 310, 12 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- OCLC
- ocm77083463
- The Water-Babies was inspired by Kingsley's thoughts on evolution. He was one of the few clergymen to accept Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection.